Tack-placer.



H. P. HAYNES. TACK PLACER. APPLICATION FILED DBO. 4, 1911. l

Patented May .20,4 1913. A

HOBART F. vHAYNES, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2U, 1913.

Application led December 4, 1911. -Serial No. 663,758.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HOBART F. HAYNES, citizen of the United States,residing at Syracuse, in the county of @nondaga and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tack- Placers, of.which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to tack placers especially adapted to beused by upholsterers, etc., for the purpose of placing -tacks at desiredpositions in material and partially pushing or driving the same home,leaving the head portions thereof exposed so that the tack may bereadily grasped and withdrawn from the material should it be desired toreplace the same at another point.

The tack placer consists of a member having an end portion provided withundercut kerfs adapted to receive the head of a tack and a surfaceadjacent the said kerfs against which the head of the tack bears inorder that the tack may be pushed or driven part of the `way homethrough the material. After this is done the implement may be removedfrom the tack, leavingithe same in its position in the materialandsubsequently the tackmay be driven completely home or removed fromthe material, as desired.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in

which: l

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the tack placer Fig. 2 isan enlarged detail view of an end portion of the same, showing parts insection; Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of an end portion of the same;Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view enlarged of an end portion of thesame; Fig. 5

is a perspective view of a modified form of the same.

Corresponding and like parts -are referred to in the vfollowingdescription and indi' cated in all the views of the accompanying drawingby the same reference characters.

n one form of the invention the implement consists of a rod 1 'bent backupon itself and having converging end portions provided at their innersides and at their eX- tremities with flattened surfaces 2. The endportions converge toward each other from the return bend of the said rodand at the outer ends of the first attened surfaces the side portions ofthe rod lare provided with shoulders 3. At the outer portions of theshoulders the sides of the rod are provided which it is to be insertedand partially pushed or forced home therein. By spreading the sideporti-ons', of the rod 1 the tack is released and left standing in thesaid material, or by slipping the implement sidewise it may be removedfrom off of the head i of the tack. If at any time it should be desiredto remove the. tack the beveled surfaces 5 are hslipped down along t-heopposite sides of the head of the tack until the opposite edge portionsof the head are received in the kerfs 4,' when the opposite sideportions of the rod 1 will spring together and grasp the head of thetack in the said kerfs. When the device is so applied to the head oftack a pull vin the direction of the stem of the tack will remove thesame from the material.

In the form of the device asshown' in Fig. 5 the tack placer consists ofa straight rod indicated at l having at one end a diametrically disposedkerf 6 and at a point in the vicinity of the said end an undercut kerf 7The shank of the tack is slipped into the kerf 6, while the head of thetack is received in the kerf 7. A tack thus positioned in the device ispressed into the material and then the implement is moved sidewise awayfrom the tack, leaving the same in the material 'with its head portioneX- posed or projecting therefrom. Should it be desired to remove thetack for the purpose of replacing the same at another point, theimplement is placed over the projecting end portion of the tack byslipping the kerf 6 along the shank of the tack and the kerf 7 along thehead 0f the same. By giving the implement a pull in the direction of thelength of the shank of the tack the said tack maylbe readily withdrawnfrom the' materia Having thus described the invention, what is claimedas new is:

A tack placer comprising a rod bent to a ioop'with the ends brought intoContact with ench other V and suficiently rigid longitudinally tooperate :is :i means for starting a lack, while the ends have notches toreceive the head of a tack and resiliently hold the same and are beveledon their inner faces below the notches so that the device may be l0pressed endwise into engagement with a partially driven tack.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witneses.

HOBART F. HAYNES. [11.5.] `Witnesses H. V. SlLxNAnAN, F. G. DU'l'roN.

